President and Founder of The Grove Consultants International—organizational consultant and information designer, building on years of experience in leadership development, strategic visioning, organization change, and futures study—author of leading-edge group process tools and models for facilitation, team leadership, and organizational transformation. These reflections are for Grove colleagues worldwide.

I selected the following large Storymap's as representative examples of my information design work at The Grove where I was a lead designer on the project. Each of them were critical in moving us to another level of confidence and excitement about this big picture way of working. What these photos do not show, of course, is the rich process of facilitated design meetings that we led as a way of generating this material.

I've included this photo album of some of the people in The Grove's associate network that use our facilitation and Strategic Visioning methods integrally in their work. They are my teachers and I theirs. Collaboration networks are behind most truly innovative, robust methodologies, and our is no exception. Claiming credit as an individual would be like a tree claiming credit for the forest. If you aren't here and know that you should be, send me you picture and a writeup and I'll post it.

These are two supportive visuals for a Partners for Change model I co-designed with Sissel Waage and Ruth Rominger. It shows how we would bring multiple sustainability researchers and activists together around critical issues and support them to create collaborative efforts in media and tool creation.

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Future Talk TV Show Features David Sibbet & Mei Lin Fung Talking about Visual Facilitation Applied to Complex Social Problems

Recently I met Mei Lin Fung, producer of Future Talk, a monthly TV show produced in Silicon Valley. She works visually herself and when she hear about Visual Meetings she invited me to be on her show. We produced a half hour session on visual facilitation and its application to complex problems in government. It was a three camera, eight person, all volunteer crew—producing live and unedited from Palo Alto's Community Media center. It is now available permanently on FutureTalk.blip.tv. I talked about my work with visual meeting, showing some examples, and then demonstrated by taking notes on my IBM Thinkpad tablet when Mei Lin was talking. Enjoy!